File-box for documents



(No Model.)

E. E. BAKER.

FILE BOX FOR DOCUMENTS.

No. 339,254. Patented Apr. 6, 1886.

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IUNETED STnTiis PATENT Trice.

EDYARD E. BAKER, OF MORGAXTO\VN, EST VIRGINIA.

FILE-BOX FOR DOCUMENTS.

SPECIFICATION Forming part of Letters Patent No. 339.25%, dated April 6, 1886.

Application filed November 30, 1885.

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Be it known that I, EDWARD E. BAKER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Mon gantown, in the county 01' Monongalia and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful File-Box for Documents, do, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved device for tiling and holding documents in boxes or drawers, and one that is easily and quickly adjusted. I accomplish this object by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front elevation of a cabinet with my tile-box in position. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the tile box with docun'ients in position. Fig. 3 is also a vlew in perspective of my lilebox with compressor-board and bail drawn back. Fig. 4 is a view in per spective oi" the compressor-board and holding arm or lever.

The documents A. are set on ends in the usual. way against the uprightstationary board 13, which constitutes the front of the drawer. The lower end of the board I; is connected to the baseboard G of the drawer, and both pieces are sustained by the curved arm I) and the angleirons F. An angle-iron or strap, F, is connected to both edges of the movable compressor-board, and extends around the curved arms, and is bent or twisted at such angles that when the board is in a vertical position against the documents on tile, a. metal brace or bail, G, is carried up along with the compressor or binding board, and when in position rests upon the curved arms,and serves to draw the lower outer corners of the bent straps against the under faces of the curved arms and hold the conuiressorboard in position against the documents. \Vhen drawn backward the compressor"board will assume an inclined position, as shown in Fig. .3, with the upper angles of the straps resting upon the curved arms.

At the angle shown in Fig. 3 the inner l'ace of the compressor-board is always in position to receive documents thrown backward in searching for headings or indorsements, and can be easily compressed or forced upward against the documents without binding of the curved straps upon the curved arms.

Serial X0. 15-15367. (No model.)

A bail, G, is pivoted to the compressor or binding board, the ends of the arms entering the edges of the board near the upper ends'of the straps in such a manner that the board will fall inside of the curved arms G when it is moved backward or inclined, and the long arm G will rest upon the arms of filebox and form a proper support for the hind ingboard at the angle of inclination shown in Fig. :3, and when the documents are in a vertical position and the bindingboard is pressed against them, as shown in Fig. 2, the bail will drop down upon the curved arms of the box,and the long arm form aprop as well as a lock for the compressor or binding board and keep the documentspressed together in a vertical position. The bail also forms a c011- venient handle, by which the compressorboard can be drawn backward along the ways or curved arms of the box. As a substitute for the bail, however, the lever-arm H may be employed. It is pivoted to the front face of the compressor-board,as shown, and when in position the lower end drops down upon the face of the baseboard oi" the drawer or tile-box, and acts as a brace orstop to prevent the compressor or binding board from springing backward when the latter is forced up against the docu' ment.

.iy placing the thumb against the curved lip Ii of the lever and pressing against that point t be lower cnd ol" the lever-arm will spring backward and upward away from the baseboard, when the compressor board can be moved along the curved ways or arms at any desired point. By this means the papers can be easily referred to, and an inclined rest or support provided while making search for any particular document, and the compressing attachment be quickly replaced without binding of the mechanism or parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a filebox for documents, the combination, with the board B and curved arms D D, of the movable compressor-board provided with straps 1*, which inclose the arms D D, the inclosing portion ofsaid straps beingso inclined or bent that when the compressor is in vertical position the inner opposite edges of said portions will be in contact with the arms, and

when the compressor is thrown back into an inclined position the parallel sides of said portions will be in contact with the arms, sub- 5 stantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of sides B and O, the cnrved arInsD D, the movable compressorboard, the inclined inclosingstrap F, Whose opposite edges touch the arms When the com- 10 pressor is vertical, and whose parallel sides uphold the compressor when th rown back, and the handle G,which forms a lock and support for the binding-board, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal.

ED WARD E. BAKER. [L s.] \Vitnesses:

CHAS. E. KELLY, O. W. M. SMITH. 

